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October 2015 Tip of the Month: Practice for EL Students
October 2015 NEWSLETTER Practice for EL Students A few years ago I was talking with a teacher about how to help her Spanish-speaking students increase their English language proficiency, a common...
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Reflections From a Washington, D.C. Teacher
December 2015 NEWSLETTER: Reflections from Adam Evans We visited Ballou High School in the summer of 2015 to introduce the staff to Organized Binder. Within a month of that training Adam Evans sent...
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Feedback From Ballou High School Teachers
In preparation Organized Binder Follow-Up #1 with Ballou High School teachers sent in feedback around how the system is impacting their classroom. Below is a few of those submissions: "OB is going...
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Overwhelming Community College Success
SCHOOL PROFILE School: Sierra College | Rocklin | California Our most vulnerable graduates who go to college overwhelmingly attend community college. The Student Success Task Force for Community...
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January 2016 Tip of the Month: The Opportunity To Reteach
January 2016 NEWSLETTER The Opportunity To Reteach A few years ago I was helping Helen, a teacher at an Organized Binder school, who was swamped by a very large exam she had to grade. I offered to...
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Organized Binder Word Cloud
At the end of the school year high school science teacher Jessica Magallanes asked her students to reflect on her course. She created this word cloud from their responses. Students clearly identified...
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Harbor High School Wins Gold Ribbon Award
SCHOOL PROFILE School: Harbor High School | Santa Cruz | California Two years ago Harbor High School implemented Organized Binder:Teacher. The effort, lead by principal Dick Davis, has been the model...
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March 2016 Tip of the Month: Do You Believe Students Can Achieve?
March 2016 NEWSLETTER Do You Believe Students Can Achieve? In this month's newsletter we are highlighting great work happening at an alternative education center in Northern California so I thought it...
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Reflections From Incarcerated Students
The school and students featured in our March 2016 Newsletter must remain anonymous for student privacy and security, therefore we will not name the students who wrote the following letters. What we...
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Students Achieve at a County and Community School
"In order to be a successful student, one needs to see him/herself as a student first. I witness that happen through Organized Binder each day and with each new student who comes to camp." -Abbie...
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April 2016 Tip of the Month: Subjects Not Objects
April 2016: Subjects Not Objects All too often throughout the school day education is going on around students instead of with students. One report notes students spend just minutes of the school day...
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Organized Binder Helps CPM Mathematics
A High School Principal Visits a Math Class: "I was in Nicole’s math class watching her lead her Algebra 1 students through a complicated (to me) process involving graphing calculators. What struck...
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May 2016 Tip of the Month: “Oh, that is what you mean!”
May 2016: "Oh, that is what you mean!" Whenever I get the privilege of speaking to a group of educators I always make a point to ask one simple question, “What are teachers doing from within the...
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Teacher One-Liners
We asked Organized Binder teachers who teach at schools that have not adopted the system (aka they are the only educators on campus using the system) to send us a one-liner about the impact Organized...
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Sacramento City College Pilot
A small group of professors at Sacramento City College implemented Organized Binder, here is what their students had to say: Over 85% of students surveyed said the system helps them know what the...
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A Middle School Teacher’s One-Liner(s)
This email from an Organized Binder middle school teacher in Southern California made me chuckle. For our May 2016 Newsletter we asked indie Organized Binder teachers to send us a one-liner about the...
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March 2016 Tip of the Month: Do You Believe Students Can Achieve?
March 2016 NEWSLETTER Do You Believe Students Can Achieve? In this month's newsletter we are highlighting great work happening at an alternative education center in Northern California, so I thought...
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Reflections From Incarcerated Students
The school and students featured in our March 2016 Newsletter must remain anonymous for student privacy and security, therefore we will not name the students who wrote the following letters. What we...
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Students Achieve at a County and Community School
"In order to be a successful student, one needs to see him/herself as a student first. I witness that happen through Organized Binder each day and with each new student who comes to camp." -Abbie...
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April 2016 Tip of the Month: Subjects Not Objects
April 2016: Subjects Not Objects All too often throughout the school day education is going on around students instead of with students. One report notes students spend just minutes of the school day...
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